November 19 2025

ANDREW: One of the many threads that are sprawling out around this question of a life long aversion to putting in effort to self improvement/ talent, is this: fear. Nothing more, nothing less. Afraid of not being able to measure up to the example given

I remind myself often of this “no preconditions” assertion, for obvious reasons. It would be a decisive blow to all doubts if the mystery woman of the subcontinent had anything to say about her experience.

VINEETO: Hi Andrew,

This is the information on the Actual Freedom website about the person of Indian birth you are talking about –

Richard to No. 6: Given that you say ‘I want to be free and will like to set up a meeting’ I am going to make it clear up-front that there is no guarantee being made here – be it either expressed or implied – other than to say that, when the conditions are ripe, magic happens.

For instance, a couple of months ago a person of Indian birth and upbringing flew into Coolangatta Airport late one night on a prearranged agreement to meet in person so as to talk about her life and to gain clarity in her life-style/ her livelihood situation.

Less than 24 hours after landing she was actually free of blind nature’s instinctual passions/the feeling-being formed thereof.

In other words, the person who landed at the airport (that feeling being who needed to gain clarity in her life-style/ her livelihood situation) vanished without a trace, in a matter of seconds, the following afternoon.

She is now living the ‘peace-on-earth’ actual freedom (as per the reports on The Actual Freedom Trust website) which will, after a suitable transitional period of acclimatisation and accommodation and accustomisation (which period took 30+ months for me all those years ago), presumably also segue into the ‘meaning-of-life’ actual freedom (as per the reports on The Actual Freedom Trust website), and which is known colloquially as the ‘magical wonderland’ (a fairy tale-like pristine paradise where peerless purity abounds), given the requisite pure intent, of course. [Emphasis added]. (Richard, List D, No. 6, 19 December 2011).

That is all the information available.

Here is the occasion where I wrote what you called “Vineeto recently endorsed again” –

Kuba: OK so the only solution worth entertaining is that which comes from a deeply passionate and caring involvement?

Vineeto: Yes, this is what your naïve inquiry into a cause worth sacrificing your ‘self’ for has produced. I keep thinking of Richard’s quote –

Richard: No, I am more making the point that only altruism – self-sacrificial humanitarianism – will provide the enormous energy necessary for ‘self’-immolation ... the instinct for individual survival is only exceeded by the instinct for group survival.

It takes a powerful instinct to overcome a powerful instinct. [Emphasis added]. (Richard, List B, James3, 28 October 2002a)

In case you discover a passionate doubt or fear or any other deeply felt obstacle to your desired aim, then you can harness the passionate energy by staying with the thrill whilst allowing pure intent to bring you closer and closer to your aim – “to offer (and demonstrate) a solid alternative to the hypocrisy, the lack of equity, the ignorant irresponsibility and the harm that was being done by all”.

The solution, as I can only surmise at this point, is accumulating and fostering this “enormous energy” required, which is a passionate energy (without frittering it away by doubt and confusion).

I have seen it happen with the woman of Indian birth. (Richard, List D, Rick, 23 December 2011) During the intense interaction which preceded her moment of becoming actually free she first talked about her deeply felt universal sorrow for all feeling beings including animals and her urgent question why that was so, and after Richard and I explained the nature of universal sorrow, her feelings turned to doubt, which was then followed by fear. As the conversation went on, she arrived back at her question of ‘why’ there is universal sorrow, only to be followed again by doubt and then fear once more, followed then by cycling back to her question of ‘why’. This pattern went on several times until I was able to point out how she was going round and round in a circle with the same question and the same feelings. She went another round, and was able to recognize the pattern herself … and her mind became very quiet.

Richard was then able to talk to her about actual time – that it is always now and that the person who arrived at the airport no longer existed, even the person who walked through the door a couple of hours ago no longer existed. She agreed and as she agreed she experienced time standing still … and the rest is history.

I am not sure if that made things clearer for you. [Emphases added]. (Actualism, Actualvineeto, Kuba5, 14 March 2025a).

What you call ‘endorsement’ was me highlighting the situation “when the conditions are ripe, magic happens” – an enormous energy, in this case sourced in the “deeply felt universal sorrow for all feeling beings” and, amongst other unknown factors, of course, a full agreement to have it happen now.

Richard made it clear, in the interactions reported by Dona and Alan during their visit that “there are no conditions to become actually free”. Here is a forum discussion about this –

KUBA: I remember there was the lady of Indian descent who became actually free 24 hours after visiting Richard and Vineeto. In the past there was disbelief at this as ‘I’ had felt somewhat cheated. I am not actually sure if she did much in the way of applying the actualism method before hand. But the point is that ultimately it doesn’t matter, the method is an “in the meantime” method. That “last bit” or for some maybe the “first bit” haha – it is all the same.

VINEETO: Richard was always clear that the actualism method is what you do in the meantime. Also –

Vineeto: One of the major topics of this three-week event of answers to questions from forum members in 2017 was that there are *no conditions to become actually free*.

“Richard said there is *no connection at all* between feeling good each moment again and actual freedom. You can become actually free right now. But … In the meantime, while you’re living your life not actually free, why not feel good? As he says, this is your only moment of being alive, why waste it feeling bad?” (Actualism, Actualvineeto, Claudiu2, 29 August 2024)

I found the whole message worth a re-read.

As for the “somewhat cheated” feeling, it is entirely self-induced. In fact, when “applying the actualism method” with the aim of becoming actually free you have deceived yourself, as you now discover, that you have not yet agreed to the last step. It is all par for the course when one sets out to untangle and extract oneself from the maze of the human condition. (Actualism, Actualvineeto, Kuba9, 29 July 2025a)

You can probably work out how all the above applies to your personal situation –

Now that you discovered your fear of moving one step further because of being “afraid of not being able to measure up to the example given” – you muse how despite (or because?) this obstacle you can become actually free right away?

There are no conditions from the actual world, it is right here, happening right now. The question is, are the conditions right from ‘your’ side? Do you, without reservation, joyfully agree to ‘your’ demise? Or is this only a fantasy built from another’s experience as a way of avoiding your fear of not fulfilling ‘your’ standards, examples, conditions, should you decide to take the practical step of changing your ‘being’ to being more happy and more harmless?

You can also look at it thisaway – you want to be actually free because you don’t like being here –

Respondent: I think I’ve been trying to do it without really becoming a happy ‘being’ first.

Richard: As the general thrust of your e-mails has been that the ‘self’-immolation in toto, as described on The Actual Freedom Trust web site, is not [quote] ‘a new concept’ [endquote] it would appear that whatever it is you have been trying to do it has had nothing to do with what actualism is on about.

Respondent: I have (big) issues to sort out first before I will be able to make the leap.

Richard: As there is no ‘leap’ – an actual freedom is not a spiritual freedom – it would indeed appear so.

Respondent: I guess there are no shortcuts.

Richard: What I find telling – and this is a general observation – is just how much peoples object to being happy and harmless ... the vast majority of the correspondence in the archives is, in fact, a cutting indictment on the human condition itself.

Do you realise – and this is a personal observation – you have just said, in effect, that you guess you will have to become a happy ‘being’ before you can become actually free from the human condition (as if were there a way to be thus free without having to do so you would not)?

Whereas it is actually such a delight to finally be able to be happy (and harmless) ... and a relief. (Richard, Actual Freedom List, No. 54, 27 November 2003).

Cheers Vineeto (Actualism, Actualvineeto, Andrew 2, 19 November 2025).

November 20 2025

ANDREW: I remind myself often of this “no preconditions” assertion, for obvious reasons. It would be a decisive blow to all doubts if the mystery woman of the subcontinent had anything to say about her experience.

VINEETO to Andrew: You can also look at it thisaway – you want to be actually free because you don’t like being here – (see: Richard, Actual Freedom List, No. 54, 27 November 2003).

KUBA: Ah this makes sense now, if ‘I’ am treating actual freedom as a desperate escape plan for ‘me’ then it is merely a self-centred involvement borne of ‘my’ resentment to being here, its selfism driving the attempt and so it is bound to go round in circles.

When gloomy and grumpy ‘I’ am certainly not concerned with much else other than ‘me’. I find that ongoing felicity and innocuity does naturally engage dedication to peace on earth, it broadens the scope of ‘my’ caring and it demonstrates/ reminds ‘me’ just how precious the end of suffering – for all – is.

Hi Andrew, hi Kuba,

I like to expand on this topic of Richard saying “when the conditions are ripe, magic happens” (Richard, List D, No. 6, 19 December 2011) and when he said to Dona and Alan “there are no conditions to become actually free”. (Dona and Alan Report, 30 October 2017).

Richard expanded on the “no condition” elsewhere –

Richard: The words and writings promulgated and promoted by The Actual Freedom Trust explicate the workings of an actual freedom from the human condition and a virtual freedom in practice in the market place. There is no meditating in silence or living in a monastery shut away from the world. There are no celibacy or obedience requirements. There are no dietary demands or daily regimes of exercise. No one is excluded by age or racial or gender origins. There are no prescribed books to study ... upwards of maybe two million words are available [in the year 2000] for free on The Actual Freedom Web Page. There are no courses to follow or therapies to undergo or workshops to endure. There are no fees to pay or any clique to join ... there are no rules at all’. (Richard, Actual Freedom List, No. 12d, 23 November 2000).

So why does not everyone become actually free instantly as has apparently happened for “the mystery woman of the subcontinent”?

It is simple – the actual world is already here, has always been and will always be. It becomes apparent when ‘I’/ ‘me’ go temporarily in abeyance. Ergo – ‘I’/ ‘me’, the passionate, imaginary identity needs to disappear/ voluntarily go extinct for the Terra Actualis to become apparent permanently.

However, when you wonder why it ‘you’ don’t disappear/ voluntarily go extinct tomorrow or the day after because it is such a good *idea*, consider what, of your own free will, you are intending to leave behind – all your hopes and doubts and fears, your hostile feelings as well as your loving and trusting feelings, all of your beliefs and trusted concepts, your grand castles made of imagination, your (borrowed) standards of right and wrong, good and bad and your sense of ‘being’ someone. Recognizing the scope, be friendly and kind towards yourself, and enjoy and appreciate every instant when your intelligence and your intent to be more felicitous and more innocuous gives you a greater range of freedom to do so and be so. And be aware that you are not alone in this grandest of adventures in your life –

Richard: ‘I’ am not alone in this endeavour because ‘I’ can tap into the purity and perfection of the infinitude of this physical universe with a pure intent born out of the PCE that one has during a peak experience. Pure intent is a palpable life-force; an actually occurring stream of benevolence and benignity that originates in the vast and utter stillness that is the essential character of the universe itself. Once set in motion, it is no longer a matter of choice: it is an irresistible pull. It is the adventure of a lifetime to embark upon a voyage of exploration and discovery; to not only seek but to find. And once found, it is here for the term of one’s natural life ... it is an irreversible mutation in consciousness. Once launched it is impossible to turn back and resume one’s normal life ... one has to be absolutely sure that this is what one truly wants. (Richard, Articles, This Moment of Being Alive, #peakexperience).

The “the enormous energy necessary for ‘self’-immolation”, provided by altruism “when the conditions are ripe” is required because of the powerful passionate energy of the self-survival instinct.

Richard: … the instinct for individual survival is only exceeded by the instinct for group survival. It takes a powerful instinct to overcome a powerful instinct. (Richard, List B, James3, 28 October 2002a).

There are no conditions how to bring this about, how slowly or instantly, it is entirely in ‘your’ hands. Everyone is a pioneer in this exhilarating, sometimes thrilling adventure of engendering this new epoch in human consciousness.

Richard also commented during Dona and Alan’s visit –

Richard: “there’s nothing you can do to become actually free, and there’s nothing you can’t do”. (Dona and Alan Report, 9 November 2017).

And here is what you can do in the meantime, because –

Richard: The way to an actual freedom from the human condition is the same as an actual freedom from the human condition – the means to the end are not different from the end – inasmuch that where one is happy and harmless as an on-going modus operandi benevolence operates of its own accord. (Richard, Actual Freedom List, No. 27d, 6 December 2002).

Cheers Vineeto (Actualism, Actualvineeto, Kuba 12, 20 November 2025).